To be a member of the Yelp Elite on yelp.com, they require you to use your real first name and last initial.
Then you can attend Elite only events (the benefit) which almost always include free cocktails. On Jan 30, 2008 2:20 PM, Alvin Woon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As with any social networking applications, the quality of a given social > graph heavily depends on whether your users are using their real name in > their profile. Certain features such as 'people search' won't even be > usable > if users don't use real name when signing up. > > So the question is how do you encourage user to use their real name > instead > of their nickname. We can't really prevent a user from signing up using a > fake/nickname and there's really no way to tell anyway. What kind of > incentive or encouragement we can give user to nudge them towards this > area > other than the common privacy reassurances like 'we won't share your > contact > info....'? > > Please advise. > > Kind regards, > Alvin > ________________________________________________________________ > *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* > February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA > Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
